Gyroscope for automobile torpedoes.



A E JONES @YEUEGOPE FOR AUTOMOBILE TOPEDOES.

Patented May '7, 1912.

fiPliLIGATION FILED APB-J4, 1911.

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ALBERT EDWARD .ronns, or FIUME, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIG-NOR T0 MESSRS. WHITEHEAID AND COMPANY, or FIUlVIE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, A coaroaa'rron.

GYROSGOPE FOR AUTOMOBILE TORPEDOES.

AppIication filed April 14, 1911. Serial No. 621,095.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented May 7, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD av subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Fiume, Austria- Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Gyroscopes for Automobile Torpedoes, of which the following is a specification. i

This inventionhas for its object controlling means for the flywheels of gyroscopes of automobile torpedoes by 'means of a jet or motor fluid supplied through two diametrically opposite twyers and the invention is particularly intended for obtaining a diminution of weight and bulk.

It is known to control the flywheel of the gyroscope of an automobile torpedo means of two diametrically pposite comupon the two of the vertical ring. Heretofore efhave been mainly directed to mainpivots the flywheel invariable while insuring freedom of movement for this ring relatively to the twyers which pass through it. The result of this arrangement has been to impart a considerable width to the ring where 1s traversed by the twyers thereby increasing the weight and volume of the system. Now

as the duration of the impulsion of the compressed .air upon the flywheel is very short as is well known it is not necessary to maintain invariable the relative position of the flywheel and the twyer except during the impulsion period, while during the running of the torpedo it is immaterial because the admission of the motorfluid is cut off whether the parts in question occupy a given relative position or not. so the twyer can be connected with or be l dependent upon a gyroscope element which is movableaccordance with this invention this movable relatively to the flywheel. In

element is the vertical ring of the gyroscope. The arrangement is illustrated in the ac.- (mnpanying drawing.

The invention consists in dividing each of the two diametrically opposite twyers into two parts of which the part or is mounted uponthe pivot I) or c of the vertical ring This being (Z of the gyroscope and connected with the members supplying the motor fluid while the other part 7 is mounted upon this vertical ring (Z which is capable of rotation relatively to theflywheelg.

l/Vhen the flywheel is at rest the two pas-. sages a and f of each twyerare arranged. opposite each other and maintained in this position by the'usua-l locking mechanism until the torpedo is launched/ After the flywheel has been started the ring 0? and the portion of the twyer carried by itcan be displaced relatively to the flywheel g without inconvenience.

This arrangement presents the advantage of not necessitating any modification in the form of the ring d which merely presents a slight protuberance at the place through which the twyer passes, thereby eliecting an important reduction of volume as compared with the usual two twyer devices in which the ring comprises a,.ver-y ance with curved slot permitting of its dis placement around .the fixed twyer's. The arrangement also permits of preserving the usualpin formation for the lower pivot c.

Having now particularly described and' ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is v1. In a gyroscope for automobile torpedoes, the combination with a pivoted mem ber of a gyroscope, and a turbine wheel, of a tit'lyer formed of two members, one mounted on a fixed-part of the gyroscope and connected with the motor fluid supply and the other mounted in the said member.

2. In a gyroscope for automobile torpedoes, a-fly wheel in the form of a turbine wheel, an outer vertical ring, e1 inner hori zontal ring, two pivots tort-he vertical ring, two twyers attached to the said vertical ring,- and two motor fluid supplying members opposite to the twyers, attached to the upper and lower pivot of the tively, substantiallyas described.-

a pivoted ring, turbine wheel,

large protuberdiametrically opposed to each other vertical ring respec- I twotwyers for imparting' motion to the fly In testimony whereof -I have hereunto Wheel, diametrically opposed to each other, placed my hand, at Fiume, this 29th day of i each twyer being divided into two partsyone March 1911.

attached to the vertical ring of the gyro- ALBERT EDWARD JONES 5 scope and the other'to' the corresponding In the presence of two witnesse'spivot of the said ring, substantially as de-' C. DE MEICHTURY,

scribed.- J. FERGOLLERY. 

